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23rd February 2024

Summary Moderate (>5 grains/cubicmetre grass concentrations were found in Bloemfontein, Kimberley and Potchefstroom. Archived data 2020-2023 indicate that moderate grass counts would be found in Johannesburg at this time of...
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16 February 2024

Summary: Grasses are significant in Gauteng, Kimberley and Bloemfontein (more than 5/cubic meter). Cape Town High temperatures and strong southerly wind reduced pollen and moulds in the air at this...
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9 February 2024

Summary Grasses are high (more than 20 grains/cubic meter) in Kimberley and moderate (more than 5 grains/cubic meter) in Johannesburg, Potchefstroom and Bloemfontein.      Cape Town Tree, grass and weeds...
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2 February 2024

Summary Significant grass concentrations were found in Kimberley and Bloemfontein and grasses in Pretoria and Johannesburg are likely to be high. Ragweed was detected at the Durban and Kimberley sites....
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26 January 2024

Summary Grass pollen is increasing in several summer rainfall regions. Tree pollen was moderate in Bloemfontein and spikes were seen for elm in Potchefstroom. In Durban, ragweed is appearing and...
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19 January 2024

 Pollen Alerts Grasses have increased in Gauteng, Eastern Cape, Bloemfontein and Durban and may pose a risk to grass sensitive individuals. Moulds/fungal spores are high in Durban and George. Cape...
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12 January 2024

Summary Increases in grass and weed pollen are seen at this time of year after the rains. Moulds increase in some coastal areas. Cape Town Tree, weed and grass pollen...
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5 January 2023

The pollen report will resume next week, 12 January. Archived data show the following: Low tree and weed counts throughout the country at this time of year. High mould/fungal spores...
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22 December 2023

Many pollen sampling sites are closed so this website will be paused until sampling starts again in January. The sites that were read this week are Cape Town, Durban and...
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15 December 2023

Summary Small spikes were seen for tree pollen at some sites and moulds have increased in Durban after considerable rain. Cape Town Pollen and moulds were found in low concentrations....
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8 December 2023

Summary Moderate grass counts were detected in Gqeberha. Tree and weed pollen was not significant and moulds were low at all the sites except Durban, which has subtropical climate. Cape...
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1 December 2023

Summary Grass is low in the winter rainfall city of Cape Town but increasing in the summer rainfall areas. Spikes for fungal spores are appearing as temperatures increase and a...
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24 November 2023

Summary Mould concentrations are low at all sites except Durban where they were moderate to high . Tree pollen is disappearing from the air, but grasses are increasing at sites...
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17 November 2023

Cape Town Pollen counts decreased sharply during this warm, dry and windy week. Grasses, trees and weeds were all low. Trees detected included ash (Fraxinus), cypress (Cupressaceae), olive (Oleaceae), pine...
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9 November 2023

Summary Grass pollen was high on warm still days in Cape Town but low in all other sampled cities. Tree pollen is moderate in Pretoria only and weeds were low...
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3 November 2023

Summary The only significant pollen concentrations were moderate grass counts seen in Cape Town. Smaller spikes were noted for English plantain and moulds were low at all sampling sites except...
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27 October 2023

Summary Grasses were moderate in Cape Town and moulds were moderate in Durban and George. Tree and weed pollen concentrations were low at all the sampling sites. Cape Town: Grasses...
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20 October 2023

Summary Cape Town has moderate grass, weed and Alternaria (mould) counts. Trees are moderate in Bloemfontein and moulds were moderate in George. Cape Town Tree pollen increased as pine (Pinaceae)...
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13 October 2023

Summary On days without rain grass pollen is now high in the Cape Town winter rainfall area and in Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Potchefstroom tree pollen was also high. Cape...
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6 September 2023

Summary Tree pollen is waning but a variety spring flowering trees are still well represented in the air. Grasses are increasing in the winter rainfall areas and veld fires have...
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29 September 2023

Summary The low pressure area that moved into the country, during this sampling week reduced pollen and mould in the air but moderate to high tree concentrations were seen on...
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22 September 2023

Summary The low temperatures with snow on high lying ground have reduced pollen loads in the air, but tree pollen is still high in Bloemfontein and Potchefstroom. Cape Town Heavy...
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16 September 2023

Tree pollen is high in Gauteng and the Free State and plane is the dominant tree. Rain has reduced all pollen in the atmosphere in coastal areas especially in the...
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8 September 2023

Tree pollen increased in Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Potchefstroom. Rain diminished the pollen concentrations in Cape Town. The dominant trees are plane, mulberry, olive, ash, and African stinkwood. Grasses, weeds...
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